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IMPROVEMENT IN HOOP SKIRTS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, AUGUST FELLHEIMER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have-invented a new and useful Improvement in Hoop Skirts and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. t

The present invention relates to a hoop skirt of that class embraced in Letters Patent granted to G. D. Clapp and H. O. Ba-rdwell, assignees of Anna M. Bardwell, on the twenty-second day'of May, A. D. 1866.

The invention consists in forming a loop-at each end'of the hoops composing the skirt, by bending such hoop over, and then securing it to the main portion of the hoop with any suitable clasp-fastening therefor, by

means of which hoop-loops a more reliable and durable, and a much better connection between the hoop ends and their sliding tubular fastenings, or the tapesof the skirt, as the case may be, is established than by the clasps employed in the Letters Patent hereinbefore referred to. In the accompanying plate of drawings my improvement in hoop skirts is illustrated- Figure 1 being a view ofthc skirt from the front side, showing it in connection with the figure of a lady.

Figure 2, a view of aportion of the skirt from the inside. I

Figure 3, an edge view of one of tlie hoops at one of its looped ends; and

Figure 4, a similar edge view to fig. 3, but of the form of connection between the ends of the hoop and its tubular fastening shown and embraced in the Letters Patenthereinbefore referred to.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The construction of'the skirt, otherwise than in the feature which this invention embraces, is substantially similar to the ordinary hoop skirts and to that of Anna M. Bardwells, hereinbefore referred to, therefore needing no particular description herein.

A are the hoops, B the tapes, and C the tubular fastenings; D the loops connected with such fastenings, and by which they are hung to the ends of the skirt hoops. The ends of-the skirt hoops overlap or pass by each other, and at their extreme ends are bent over so as to form loops F, which, are secured or .fixed by the use of any suitable clasp-fastenings, G, for binding the end to the main portion of the hoop. To the looped ends of the skirt hoops the tubular fastening-loops are hung, as shown in the drawings, where such fastenings are. employed upon the skirt, they being all, by one side of their bent-over portions, constituting the hoop-loop, inserted in andpassed through the loops ordinarily woven in the tapes for the hoops. 4

By looping the ends of the skirt hoops as described, or in any other suitable manner, the wearing or cutting away of the tape and tubular fastening to which such hoop-loops are connected or hung, is entirely obviatedl and remedied; an advantage of the utmost importance over the mode employed in the skirt embraced in the Letters Patent hereinbefore referred to.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- The looped ends to the hoops of the skirt of that class hereinabove referred to, and substantially as and for the purpose specified.

AUGUST FELLHEIMER.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, WM. F. MONAMABA. 

